RICH HILL RELEASES FEES FOR ROSTER GOLDEN GROVE STUD GETTING OF FIVE STALLIONS BACK ON TRACK - PAGE 13 - PAGE 14 Tuesday, May 19, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australiasian bloodstock industry subscribe for free: Click here DIRECT TO YOUR INBOX EVERY MORNING CATALOGUE ONLINE NOW ROSEMONT EXCLUSIVE ONLINE SALE UNRESERVED 25-26 MAY 2020 FEATURING 38 WEANLINGS BY SIRES INCL EXCEED AND EXCEL, ZOUSTAR, WRITTEN TYCOON, RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, BRAZEN BEAU, CAPITALIST, SO YOU THINK, & STARSPANGLEDBANNER; AND BROODMARES INCL 10 STAKES PERFORMERS HEADLINED BY 2YO STAKES WINNERS GOLD RUSH & SPLIT LIP IN FOAL TO SAVABEEL AND ZOUSTAR RESPECTIVELY, AS WELL AS PROVEN STAKES PRODUCERS AMONGST 55 LOTS Rosemont Open Days – 19th, 20th, 21st & 22nd MAY Inspections begin at 10am, 12pm & 2pm – Bookings essential Contact Anthony Mithen T 0413 486 767 or Ryan McEvoy T 0439 802 837 E [email protected] View the catalogue online at www.magicmillions.online Or via the Equineline catalog app for iPad Tuesday, May 19, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here STALLION WATCH - PAGE 17 MACAU RACING NEWS - PAGE 15 MILLIONS ROSEMONT CATALOGUE UNVEILED - PAGE 6 Black Soil’s fillies What's on Race meetings: Kembla Grange (NSW), experiment paying off Port Macquarie (NSW), Moe (VIC), Bundaberg (QLD), Rockhampton (QLD) Barrier trials/ Jump-outs: Rosehill (NSW), with promising Isotope Port Macquarie (NSW), Caulfield (VIC), Gollan-trained Deep Field two-year-old favourite to bring up Werribee (VIC), Bendigo (VIC), Doomben hat-trick in Champagne Stakes (QLD), Longford (TAS) International meetings: Saint-Cloud (FR) International Group races: Saint-Cloud (FR) - Prix Cleopatre (Gr 3, 2100m) STUD NEWS Rich Hill releases fees for Isotope MICHAEL MCINALLY roster of five stallions Gollan, has emerged as the most promising Three of Rich Hill Stud’s stallions will have their BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS of the Black Soil enterprise’s small batch of service fees unchanged while young sire Proisir sotope (Deep Field), the favourite for two-year-olds secured at last year’s sales after (Choisir) has earned an increase for 2020 after the Saturday’s BRC Champagne Classic Sydney businessman Brian Siemsen and his New Zealand farm yesterday confirmed its line-up (Gr 2, 1200m) at Eagle Farm, will advisers mapped out a plan to target well-bred for this year. Stud News page 13 >> further entrench her spot as the Black fillies at last year’s yearling sales. SoilI Bloodstock flagbearer if she extends her Siemsen, who raced Group 1 winners Golden Grove Stud getting unbeaten record to three at her first attempt Spirit Of Boom (Sequalo) and Temple Of back on track at stakes level and strengthens her position Boom (Sequalo) with Gollan, had his trainer, Hunter Valley farm Golden Grove Stud is in the towards the head of the J J Atkins Plate (Gr 1, renowned agent John Foote and Black Soil’s process of embarking on a plan to become a full- 1400m) betting in the process. principal agent Harry McAlpine assist in the scale commercial entity after being hard-hit by The boom juvenile, who is trained by Tony selection process. Continued on page 2>> drought in recent years. Stud News page 14 >> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Black Soil’s fillies experiment paying off with promising Isotope | 2 | Tuesday, May 19, 2020 << Continued from page 1 One of those was Isotope, the current $5 equal favourite with Wisdom Of Water (Headwater) for the J J Atkins Plate, who burst onto the scene with a ten-length victory at Doomben on April 11 before backing it up with a professional performance at the Sunshine Coast on April 25 over 1000 metres. The Deep Field (Northern Meteor) filly was given an exhibition gallop in company at Doomben last Wednesday and reports suggest she has www.equilume.com come through her last start in fine order. We’ve been using the Equilume Light Masks for 6 years now and they are an important part of our breeding regime. The masks work just as well as mares being boxed and under lights. Most importantly, it means the mares can be kept in paddocks in a more natural Harry McAlpine BLACK SOIL BLOODSTOCK environment. “I can only go by what the trainer tells me and he says that she’s going exceptionally well,” McAlpine said yesterday. This reduces “Obviously, it’s a step up now to Group level, but all the ratings and stress on the indicators suggest that she is up to the mark, we’re looking forward to Saturday.” mares and After such a dominant all-the-way win at her first start, McAlpine was gets them taken with the way Isotope was able to settle behind the leaders and had the ability to go through a narrow gap before extending nicely to win by cycling.” two and a quarter lengths second-up. “It’s pretty important to show that sort of racing pattern with her inexperience. She can sit off them, relax and travel and keep up with them, Brent Grayling, which is pretty impressive for only a two-start juvenile and that is what you need going into these big races,” he said. Supreme Thoroughbreds “Tony’s mapped her campaign out from a long way out and so far it’s Romsey, VIC gone to plan. She’s travelled away from Brisbane (and won), but it’s a bit of an unknown how the Eagle Farm surface will be. “It seems like some horses handle the new Eagle Farm better than others, so I guess that is one unknown, but hopefully it’s a good surface and she handles the track.” Amandine Lee-Warner Black Soil Bloodstock, whose colours are also worn by stakes-placed Australia & New Zealand three-year-old Niedorp (Not A Single Doubt), races the promising The Actuary (Sebring) and the unraced juveniles Bleu Zebra (I Am Invincible) L: +61 2 6543 6322 and Rubin (Zoustar). E: [email protected] “Last year, we mapped out a plan ... to target fillies who looked like W: www.equilume.com they were going to be two-year-olds and had a pedigree and family behind them,” McAlpine said. Continued on page 4>> Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by Black Soil’s fillies experiment paying off with promising Isotope | 4 | Tuesday, May 19, 2020 << Continued from page 2 “The whole idea is to get good horses firstly, but to make sure that there’s some residual there if they can’t live up to that ability. So far, they all seem to be going well, which is good. “The only other one to run so far out of that group is The Actuary who didn’t run very well on Friday night at the Sunshine Coast (when fourth), but her second start at Doomben was pretty impressive when she ran on strongly for third. “Those two are showing a heap of ability and we have an I Am Invincible filly which Tony has a very high opinion of and Rubin, a Zoustar filly, who is just coming to hand now.” While more than happy with the current line-up, it could have been even better for Black Soil Bloodstock had it been able to land this season’s Ciaron Maher and David Eustace-trained star juvenile filly Away Game (Snitzel), who was victorious in four of her eight starts and the earner of more than $2.7 million in prize-money. “It is going well with what we’ve put in place with Tony and John Foote, to go and target these sorts of horses and it’s nice that it’s coming to hand,” he said. Isotope as a yearling MAGIC MILLIONS “But we were also under bidders on Away Game, so it’s nice to know that we are shooting in the right direction.” “A lot of the purchases are based on type. John Foote likes really good- As for Isotope, she was well under the $425,000 that Away Game moving horses and she was a terrific mover. eventually sold for. “Daandine is also a very good farm who we hold in high regard; she “We paid $170,000 for her when at the time Deep Field’s runners were ticked a lot of boxes and hopefully the purchase price is going to turn out only two, so it was a purchase we did on type,” he said. to be pretty good buying.” Follow us @anz_news | 4 | Brought to you by Top-class 3YO? Won The Everest in record time from 10 Gr.1 winners Top-class 2YO? Won the Todman Stakes-Gr.2 in record time A sire’s pedigree? One of the best colts from the Encosta de Lago sire line and closely related to dual Gr.1-winning sprinter In Her Time New for 2020. Fee: $38,500 (INC. 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